XDG Portals on Void Linux

The reason why, when you open a .html, it might open in your browser instead of a text editor is XDG. And that stands for X Desktop Group which is the original name of what is now known as freedesktop.org, and it's just all about standardization or something. When you get Spotify for example, and it makes you log in through your browser, yeah, the same thing.

Not to bore you, if you want to just be able to have things like clicking on a link outside of your browser, and having it open in your browser, let's just set up XDG.

Install the portals & utils

GTK portals & utils:

sudo xbps-install -S xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-gtk xdg-utils

When you see it pulling in gnome-desktop or something, don't worry, it's just freedesktop BLOAT though it's a few megabytes of shared C or stuff libraries apparently. You did get GTK4 for some shit but you didn't get the whole GNOME desktop environment. It's fine I'd say, the alternatives -wlr for Wayland/wlroots and -kde might just do the same thing but with their own stuff, like -kde would pull in Qt/KDE instead. If you are using KDE or a window manager setup more reliant on Qt, then go with -kde, same logic if you're using wlroots or something.

After installing, you're done.
Go ahead and try xdg-open with a URL and witness it open in your browser.

If you're using GTK with a dark theme and it turns light for you after installing, just do

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme 'prefer-dark'

and it should be back to normal once again.